As you can see, eddie11c wrote the script, but he is currently busy and doesn't have the time to fix it up so I ask the community's shell scripting gurus to help fix this. This is the only thing preventing OSx86 Tools from going to final release. There are two problems that need to be fixed with this:

1) In the "Please enter your EFI string. Leave blank to use none." prompt, you can enter the string to be inserted into the com.apple.boot.plist file. The problem is, the characters cut off at I think 1023 characters, so only part of the EFI string gets inputted. This is the first thing that needs to be fixed.

2) After every prompt, the script saves and makes the modifications to the com.apple.boot.plist file. This is dangerous since if you quit the script in the middle of the wizard it will corrupt the plist. This needs to be fixed so that all the modifications are made at the end, after a confirmation prompt.

If anyone could help with either of those two, it would be much appreciated!

Posted 01 July 2008 - 04:30 AM

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I'll take a try at both problems.
A likely fix for the first problem would be to use an alternative scripting language that is guaranteed to be installed, such as Perl (used in many official Apple installers.)
I'll probably have a finished script by tomorrow.